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What can you do with a Raspberry Pi 3?

I love retro games so i bought a Raspberry Pi 3 to run Retropie, then later switched to Recalbox because it has an awesome feature called 'rewind' that lets you to turn back time in games.

But there is so much more to Raspberry Pi than just building a retro gaming machine. Here are some other cool and fun projects i have tried out (for educational purposes) and they are all quite easy to install since they most of them comes as a disk image you can write to a mirco SD card and boot it up.

First of all, in case you have never heard of Raspberry Pi (shame on you):

The Raspberry Pi 3 is the third generation Raspberry Pi. It replaced the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B in February 2016:

A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU

802.11n Wireless LAN

Bluetooth 4.1

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Like the Pi 2, it also has:

1GB RAM

4 USB ports

40 GPIO pins

Full HDMI port

Ethernet port

Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video

Camera interface (CSI)

Display interface (DSI)

Micro SD card slot (now push-pull rather than push-push)

VideoCore IV 3D graphics core

All this for only $35 USD, what a bargain!

There are 100s of DIY projects out in the wild but the popular ones are:

Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center, or OpenELEC for short, is a small Linux distribution built for running a complete media center. It uses a media center called Kodi There is another one called LibreELEC.

Google will be releasing Android for RPi3 though at the moment, the Github project is empty. But if you can't wait, someone has already ported an unoffical version of Android 6 (usable but still rough around the edges). Can't wait to run Android TV soon...

This is just a very small selection of projects. There are other really cool projects to make your home smarter using IoT but you need the addons for Raspberry Pi. Take a look at some of the DIY project created using Window IoT for Raspberry Pi.

What other popular DIY project do you know of? i'll be interested to learn and try them out.